OMB, HHS create new health IT task force

The Health and Human Services Department wants to create a new interagency task force to better coordinate and improve how the government implements health information technology. In a memo to six agencies, HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag write that this new task force would replace the existing health IT interagency group because it is "not a good fit for the new [health IT] environment."

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